
Gouri Sharma
Gouri Sharma is a freelance cultural and political journalist from London living in Berlin
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How Audre Lorde Studied Berlin’s Warnings and Silences
Bearing witness to the monumental changes happening at a transitional time for Germany, Berlin became a source of both support and comfort for the poet Audre Lorde, as well as a place that would haunt her.

Germany’s Abortion Debate Is Still Shaped by Its East-West Divide
East Germany is often remembered as less forward-thinking than its Western counterpart, yet when the Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago, it marked the beginning of a process that would see East German women lose their stronger rights to abortion.